The End of Me Quotes

“God will not waste your pain.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“Without seeing the depths of sin, we’ll never understand the heights of God’s love and grace.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“Proverbs tells us, “Pride only leads to arguments” (13:10 NCV). The proud are magnetically attracted to conflict. And when the proud get into a squabble, it can become epic, because the hardest thing in the world would be for them to apologize. That requires humility. Some words and phrases just won’t come out of the prideful mouth. “I was wrong. Please forgive me,” for example. It’s agonizing because it feels like defeat, and proud people are obsessive about being undefeated in arguments, class discussions, political conversations, and family disputes. And proud people love to make their point on the Internet. The few, the proud (unfortunately the proud are not few) will wait out the worst disagreements without apologizing. They can hold out for decades, kind of hoping it all blows over. “I was wrong” or “that was my fault” are out of the question. On the very, very rare occasion one of the proud apologizes, he’ll qualify it: “I’m sorry—but …” Qualified apologies never seem to work.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“Brokenness is not trending on Twitter. It’s not written on anyone’s résumé, and it’s no business strategy at all. It is, however, the one hope Jesus holds out for us, the inside-out, upside-down way that is somehow the only path that ultimately is right side up. Embrace the paradox: brokenness is the way to wholeness.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“God loves to fill empty things—whether”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“If you’re most interested in what other people think, then their applause or attention is your reward.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“There’s nothing life can throw at us that God can’t use to draw us nearer to him.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“Here’s one to think about: the less you see your own brokenness, the more broken you are.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“I’ve come to realize that if me gets his way, I’ll miss out on the real life I’m meant to live. The life in which I love others and make a difference in the world.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“When disaster comes, we can’t see anything bigger than what we’ve lost. But the truth is, God more than fills that space. We begin to see that he’s not just filling that space, but spaces we didn’t even know we had.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“To Satan’s befuddlement, Job experienced God in a way he never had before. “My ears had heard of you,” he said, “but now my eyes have seen you” (42:5).”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“It works like this. In surprising ways, suffering makes room in our spirit for us to know and experience the blessing of God’s peace and presence. Without suffering, we simply can’t know his comfort. In mourning, we experience the blessing of God’s presence.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“Life has a way of waking everybody up at some point. Everybody has that sudden, painful longing for yesterday, when they didn’t know how good they had it, just before the world fell in.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“We are “those people.” The truth is … we are the others. Most of us are one paycheck, one divorce, one drug-addicted kid, one mental health diagnosis, one serious illness, one sexual assault, one drinking binge, one night of unprotected sex, or one affair away from being “those people”—the ones we don’t trust, the ones we pity, the ones we don’t let our children play with, the ones bad things happen to, the ones we don’t want living next door.3”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“By his grace, and by nothing you can offer, he chooses you.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“Jesus is saying that God’s kingdom begins in you when you come to the end of yourself and realize you have nothing to offer.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“He begins to introduce us to the great kingdom paradox: at the end of me, I find real life in him.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“In what seems like the smallest of moments, in brief encounters with other people, he’ll take you and speak a life-changing word through you. When God chooses you, he equips you. Every time.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“It’s not too late, and it never has been. And there’s never been a better time, a more perfect time, than the present moment. That’s always the one in which he wants to meet you. The life you have is not the life you must accept. You need only to ask for help. The more helpless you are, the better—the more open you will be to the help that only he can offer. He meets you right there at the end of yourself.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“We struggle with authenticity because we fear rejection. We want the world to see us at our very best, because then people are more likely to accept and possibly even admire us.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“Here’s what we find in our suffering. There is a deep void that used to be filled with whatever we lost. That could be stuff or even relationships—none of which are bad things. But when it’s gone, it leaves an aching cavity, and God is there to fill it up with himself.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“Embrace the paradox: brokenness is the way to wholeness.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“He could have disembarked in one of the world's greatest cities. People would have said, "Right time, right place, look what fate can do."

He could have been born into a billionaire financial dynasty. People would have said, "Look what money can do."

He could have been the child of an earthly emperor. People would have said, "Look what political power can do."

He could have come by way of a celebrity family. People would have said, "Look what fame can do."

Instead, he stepped into poverty, weakness, and obscurity, and all we're left to say is, "Look what God can do.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“This is the death we must die. Not a one-time death. Not a partial death. It’s a daily dying. And every time I come to the end of me, I discover what I deeply wanted all along—real and abundant life in Christ.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“Each day when we climb out of bed to begin a new day, we’re still human. The old self gets out of bed with us, and we have to put on Christ as an act of will, over and over. From”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“There’s no review blurb from Jesus on the back of this book saying, I’m okay; you’re okay. Jesus says nobody’s okay. We’re all broken. But”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“Jesus became real when … I came to the end of me.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“Jesus isn’t recommending that you take up suffering as a weekend hobby. He just wants you to realize that you can find an incredible blessing hidden in the shadows. And that blessing might be visible only through the lens of your tears.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“we do everything we can to stay away from mourning. Then, when we catch ourselves mourning, we do all in our power to make it go away.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins